Late last year, a new GameArts title appeared out of nowhere in a list of upcoming WiiWare downloads. Titled Kage no Shounen, Hikari no Yousei (roughly, "Boy of Shadow, Fairy of Light"), the game was listed then for a Spring release.
Spring is winding down, and the game hasn't yet made it out. But it is still on the way. During an introduction at today's Grandia Online press conference, GameArts CEO Kazuki Morishita made mention of the game as one of the company's upcoming titles. He referred to it as the company's first new IP in a long time.
An image shown at the event listed a Fall 2009 release. As posted at Inside Games, although cleaned up just a bit in Photoshop, the image looks like this:
